Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-19
Only a Few Weeks to Live.
ALARMING PRIVATE REPORTS SENT OUT REGA RDr,
THR GERMAN CROWN PRINCE

ALARMING PRIVATE REPORTS SENT our REGARDING
TIE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.
special London cabegram to the New York
World says: Private kilograms tonight from San
Reno say the crown princes death Is a matter OF
few weeks, but strenuous efforts are being made
In the German press TO keep the news back II
was discovered yesterday for the first time-or
rather It was con1ded 10 the friends by his physi-
cian-that the cancer was throwing on green pus,
which shows 10 10 be OF the soft variety, the re-
suit OF which is swift and hopeless.
Berlin dispatches say that yesterday Professor
virrhow received a portion OF the matter recently
discharged from the tumor in the crown princes
throat He viii examine IL microscopicaly
A dispatch from San Reno TO the National
Gazette says that the crown prince looks WELL
has a healthy color, and his mind is serene. His
voice is husky, but he has no difficulty in speaking
he continues 10 express hope OF recovery.
- DOES NOT THINK IT CANCER.
A New York dispatch In to-day's PHILADELPHIA
Times says that DIR. John II. Douglas, who was
Grants physician, has studied the case of the
crown prince from the records. He said yesterday
"From the latest cable reports from London see
that there has been a discharge OF green matter
from the crown princes throat, and that 1t is in
ferred from this that the prince has soft cancer OF
the most malignant kind. II seems to me- without
having, OF course seen the crown prince that the
discharge of green matter does not indicate cancer
at all We must go back to the diagnosis OF Vlr-
chow who Is the highest authority In cell growth
and who said that the growth In the princes
a malignant growth, and therefore it is NOT can
cerous. virchow pronounced 1t a warty growth
and DR.. MackenLies forceps removed It. 1t was
situated just below the left vocal chord Finally
the cautery OF the stump Of the warty growth re-
moved BY Dr. Mackenzie would tend 10 change the
character OF the mucous membrane Immediately
surrounding the place cauterfZed.
II assume, when make the observation, that
the entire growth was not removed by cautery,
but only the stump OF what was removed by Dr.
Mackenzie. The cautery OF the stump would tend
TO lrritate the mucous membrane, and on the sub
sldeDce OF the Inflammation the patient would be
better. That Is exactly what has happened since
the cautery was finished. The crown prince Is
better. and he Is going 10 determine what had bet
ter DE done. We DO not know whether the green
discharge Is result or the cold which the prince
took recently at BavenO or not, but it seems GER
tain that the discharge Is OF a catarrhal nature
coming from the larynX, as the result OF a cold,
aggravated by the Irritation resulting from cautery
Oh the warty stump.
'The green color does not signify that 1t Is d s.
charge from a cancer, which is usually coloreSS,
unless IT Is the result of d1s1ntegratiOn of tissue.
10 This point the disease OF the prince has not yet
progressed, and, therefore, one can say that he
has d soft cancer because OF The discharge"